Ukraine brought home 13 more children

Another 13 children were returned to the territory controlled by Ukraine. Seven of them were returned from the temporarily occupied territories, another six were returned as part of the implementation of the approved action plan of the President of Ukraine Bring Kids Back UA.

This was reported by the Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights, Dmytro Lubinets.

He noted that some of the children who have been returned have lost their parents, some - the parents wanted to return on their own, but the Russian Federation did not allow them to do so, some — dreamed that they would go to their relatives.

Dmytro Lubinets said that he was impressed by the story of a 15-year-old girl from Mariupol.

«Her house was hit by a Russian tank, so she and her mother found shelter in the church until the girl was injured in the head by the fragments of the rocket (what could this child be to blame? After numerous attempts and actions in order to leave the territory controlled by Ukraine, the family she managed to do it),» he wrote.

The Office of the Ombudsman worked on the return of the children together with other state bodies and with the mediation of the State of Qatar.

We will remind you that earlier Ukraine returned three brothers and a sister to the territory controlled by Ukraine, who were under occupation after the full-scale invasion of Russia.

We will also remind you that as of December 2023, approximately 4,000 adopted children ended up in the temporarily occupied territory or were deported to the territory of the Russian Federation.

It was previously reported that the Parliament of Moldova will consider a resolution condemning the illegal deportation of Ukrainian children by Russia and the need for their return home as soon as possible.